"I, I will take you to see a doctor, an imperial physician, yes, an imperial physician, let the imperial physician come over!!" Long Mujiang stuttered and shouted at Lan Nuoling.
Lan Nuoling finally reacted and hurried to see Li Yao. She remembered that when His Majesty came out, he brought four of the best imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital. Now that there was no problem, why didn't any of them come?
"The reason I was able to wake up is that Xu Tianze fed me a detoxification pill and asked me to soak the detoxification pill in water. That's how we got reinforcements. Those imperial doctors are still unconscious." Li Yao received Lan Nuoling's gaze and explained to everyone while signaling the guards around him to quickly carry the imperial doctors over.
“Whoosh—”
"careful!"
"Aze!"
"Brother!"
Xu Tianze took a deep breath and used all his strength to push Long Mujiang away. The arrow feather directly penetrated Xu Tianze's chest. When Xu Tianze fell, the tail of the arrow behind him rested on the ground, and the arrow head rushed out of Xu Tianze's chest and penetrated through him.
After Long Mujiang was pushed away by Xu Tianze, he saw the whole process of Xu Tianze falling. He turned his head to look at the source of the arrow. It turned out that a thief who was not yet dead had shot the last arrow.
The arrow was originally aimed at the empress, but because he and Xu Tianze were standing in front of the empress, the arrow was shot at both of them. In the end, Xu Tianze pushed him away, and the arrow had only one destination, and that was Xu Tianze.
Long Mujiang threw his sword out in anger, and the sword pierced the enemy, cutting off his breath. Then Long Mujiang fell in front of Xu Tianze and hugged Xu Tianze in his arms.
"Aze, Aze, can you please look at me?" Long Mujiang trembled as he wanted to reach out and touch Xu Tianze's face.
But when he saw that his hands were covered in dirt, he put his hands down again. His Aze loved cleanliness the most, so how could he touch it with dirty hands?
"Ahem, why... now, should I... should I ask... ask, do you love... do you love me?" Xu Tianze had a self-deprecating smile on his face, and his weak voice was full of ridicule.
He thought of many ways to die, but he didn't want to die for others, because he felt that although he was soft-hearted, he was also ruthless and would never do such a selfless thing.
But things are unpredictable. None of the ways of death he imagined existed. The only thing he had never thought of was his final outcome.
"It's already this late, and you're still playing around like this." Long Mujiang forced a smile, but the tears that kept rolling down his eyes made his expression extremely strange. "My dear, I have always, always loved you."
It is only you, there has never been anyone else. You are irreplaceable in my heart. Even the empire of a thousand countries cannot compare to you.
Xu Tianze had a satisfied smile on his face, but then the starlight in his eyes dimmed a lot: "It's a pity that you and I can never be together."
After saying that, Xu Tianze turned his head with great effort to look at Lan Nuoling who was crying beside him. His elder sister did not recognize him at first, but no matter how cold the human heart is, it is not as hard as stone, and she was eventually warmed up.
"Perhaps, my life has become a thorn in everyone's side. Only my death can put everyone back on track."
At this time, Xu Tianze's voice was weak but he was no longer gasping for breath. He knew that this was his last breath and he was saying his final goodbye, so he relaxed completely.
"Sister, just be good. That's enough. Don't owe me anything."
Lan Nuoling kept nodding her head. She wanted to say something, but before she could finish her words, she was choked by sobs.
"Ajiang, I'm a little cold." Xu Tianze reached out to touch Long Mujiang, "I didn't know that this summer night could be so cold."
"No, I'll hold you tighter, and Aze won't be cold anymore." Long Mujiang hugged Xu Tianze tightly, and his whole body began to tremble.
"In the next life, we won't meet each other. I think not meeting is better than meeting." Xu Tianze said, and slowly closed his eyes.
His life was long and wonderful. Although his father was strict when he was young, he also had a lot of happiness. The blood feud of his youth and the cynicism of his youth seemed less important at this moment.
At least, in the end, he left in the arms of the person he loved most, and that was enough.
Seven days later, in a valley full of dandelions
"Does the emperor's uncle really want to stay here forever?" Xu An stood in front of his uncle, looking at the newly built tomb, wondering what he was thinking.
"I told you long ago when I brought you into the palace that the Kingdom of Gan would be left to you in the end." Long Mujiang lay on a recliner beside him, half-closed his eyes, "Now I am not a descendant of the royal family, but just an ordinary commoner."
Xu An looked at the scene and didn't know what to say for a moment. There was a transplanted osmanthus tree, a newly erected grave, a simple wooden house next to it, and a lounge chair, in this huge valley full of dandelions.
He knew that his uncle, the emperor, had probably died in his heart when his younger uncle died, and no matter what he said, he was no longer angry.
Looking at the tombstone engraved with his uncle's name, Xu An sighed in his heart and turned to walk outside. Now he was the emperor of Gan Kingdom. He, a monk who had been vegetarian and chanting Buddhist scriptures for the first half of his life, could not escape his predetermined fate in the end.
Just like the ending of the younger uncle and the emperor's uncle will never be perfect.
After Xu An left, Long Mujiang opened his eyes and glanced at Xu Tianze's tombstone, his eyes filled with infinite tenderness and doting: "Aze, you left the Die Zhai sign to Xichen and asked Xuewei and his wife to pass it on because you were afraid he wouldn't want it, right?"
"But it doesn't matter. I've already asked Xue Er and Xue San to pass on the message. He will definitely accept Die Zhai in the end."
"You said we won't meet again in the next life. I'll do as you say. But you have to stay with me for the rest of my life, because I haven't spent enough time with you. There are still many things I haven't explained to you."
A gust of wind blew, bringing with it a soft whisper that continued to echo in the valley...
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